The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

THEIR DIET.
Tortillas are made of corn, which is first soaked in a weak
lye, and then boiled until it is perfectly soft, when it is
crushed at a metatte, consisting of two fiat stones, and afterwards moulded by the hands into a kind of pancake, and
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baked on a heated iron or stone. It is a very palatable article
(of food, and is undoubtedly a specimen of the unleavened
bread mentioned in Scripture.
Chilli and frejolies are as necessary to a Mexican as is
bread tc an American; in fact, they are not unfrequently his
diet for months. Meat is rarely eaten by them, and never
iunless cooked ill chilli colorado, or garlic.
Give a Mexican a peck of beans and a string of red peppers, and he is thoroughly contented; nor will he work
whiie a particle of either remains.
Having heard much of the ruins of an ancient city lying
about one hundred and twenty miles northeast of Mesilla,
said to be one of the celebrated "Seven cities of Cibola,"
I alrranged to visit them.
Organizing a party of five, with eight Mexican servants,
we started with two ambulances and six pack mules. Our
first day's journey brought us to the foot of the Organ
Mountains, where we camped for the night in a beautiful
grove of live-oak.
The next morning we took an early start, and reached the
summit of the pass about noon.
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